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Juan Rulfo

1917–1986 · 20th century

Juan Rulfo was a Mexican writer and photographer whose small body of work had great influence on Latin American literature. His story collection The Burning Plain (1953) and novel Pedro Páramo (1955), set among the dead of a ruined village in Jalisco, portray rural Mexico after the Revolution. Gabriel García Márquez acknowledged Pedro Páramo as a major influence.

Juan Rulfo
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